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AGNES DAY!
Posted by Mike Aquilina on 01.21.12 |
Today’s saint, Agnes of Rome, is long overdue for a revival. Why? She was probably the most revered female martyr of the early Church — outstanding in a field that included Blandina and Perpetua, among others. St. Jerome was not a man easily impressed, but of today’s saint, his near-contemporary, he wrote: “Every people, whatever their tongue, praise the name of Saint Agnes.” Prudentius wrote a long… [Continue Reading]
The Man in the Desert!
Posted by Mike Aquilina on 01.17.12 |
Mike Aquilina reflects upon the inspiration and impact of St. Anthony.
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Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Posted by Mike Aquilina on 01.10.12 |
Mike Aquilina discusses St. Gregory of Nyssa, a great thinker and man of prayer of the 4th century.
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St. Ignatius, "God-Carrier"
Posted by Mike Aquilina on 10.17.11 |
Today is the memorial of St. Ignatius, bishop of Antioch at the end of the first century. In this interview, Patristics scholar and St. Paul Center vice president, Mike Aquilina, discusses the life and legacy of this important early witness to the faith of the Apostles.
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Blessed the Barron
Posted by Mike Aquilina on 08.26.11 |
The long-awaited book Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith is out and buyable!
When Father Barron is talking, I can’t stop listening. Whatever he writes, I can’t put down unfinished. He loves the people he addresses. He writes about what matters to us. To read him is to be loved in word after word. In these pages, heart speaks to heart.
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The Whole Earth Keeps Silence
Posted by Mike Aquilina on 04.23.11 |
Something strange is happening ... there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.
He has gone to search for our first… [Continue Reading]
Holy Thursday
Posted by Mike Aquilina on 04.21.11 |Eucharist, Holy Thursday, Last Supper
Whether you hold, with some Syriac Fathers, that Christ instituted the Eucharist on Tuesday — or, with the Western tradition, that He instituted it on Thursday — today, Holy Thursday, is the day the Catholic Church remembers the event liturgically. I’m about to leave with my kids for the Chrism Mass in my diocese. It’s a great sight for children to see every year: all the priests of the local Church… [Continue Reading]
Out of Africa
Posted by Mike Aquilina on 03.07.11 |
For St. Perpetua’s day, visit early Christian Africa—in one of the earliest posts on my blog.
Carthage, the cosmopolitan port city of ancient North Africa, had a thriving economy, a lively culture, and no small influence in world affairs. Christianity reached the Roman province of “New Africa” no later than the mid-second century, and possibly much earlier. From that time through the rest of the age… [Continue Reading]
